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Rukhsar Khatoon, the last person in India to contract polio, stands by her parents working on an embroidery piece at their home in Shahpara Village, 60 kilometers (40 miles) west of Kolkata, India, Thursday, March 27, 2014. In India, the scourge of polio ends with Khatoon, a lively 4-year-old girl who contracted the disease when she was a baby after her parents forgot to get her vaccinated. On Thursday, after three years with no new cases, the World Health Organization formally declared India polio-free. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
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Rukhsar Khatoon, the last person in India to contract polio, stands in the courtyard of her home in Shahpara Village, 60 kilometers (40 miles) west of Kolkata, India, Thursday, March 27, 2014. In India, the scourge of polio ends with Khatoon, a lively 4-year-old girl who contracted the disease when she was a baby after her parents forgot to get her vaccinated. On Thursday, after three years with no new cases, the World Health Organization formally declared India polio-free. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
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Rukhsar Khatoon, the last person in India to contract polio, hangs on the handle of a tube well in Shahpara Village, 60 kilometers (40 miles) west of Kolkata, India, Thursday, March 27, 2014. In India, the scourge of polio ends with Khatoon, a lively 4-year-old girl who contracted the disease when she was a baby after her parents forgot to get her vaccinated. On Thursday, after three years with no new cases, the World Health Organization formally declared India polio-free. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
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Rukhsar Khatoon, the last person in India to contract polio, hangs on to a bamboo fence, as her mother Sabeda Bibi stands beside her, at their home in Shahpara Village, 60 kilometers (40 miles) west of Kolkata, India, Thursday, March 27, 2014. In India, the scourge of polio ends with Khatoon, a lively 4-year-old girl who contracted the disease when she was a baby after her parents forgot to get her vaccinated. On Thursday, after three years with no new cases, the World Health Organization formally declared India polio-free. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
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Rukshar Khatoon, the last person in India to contract polio, looks out from a bamboo fence at her home in Shahpara Village, 60 kilometers (40 miles) west of Kolkata, India, Thursday, March 27, 2014. In India, the scourge of polio ends with Khatoon, a lively 4-year-old girl who contracted the disease when she was a baby after her parents forgot to get her vaccinated. On Thursday, after three years with no new cases, the World Health Organization formally declared India polio-free. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
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Chairperson of South-East Asia Regional Certification Commission for Polio Eradication Supamit Chunsuttiwat, second left, displays a certificate declaring South-East Asia polio free along with World Health Organization's South-east Asian region Regional Director Poonam Khetrapal in New Delhi, India, Thursday, March 27, 2014. The World Health Organization has formally declared India polio-free, with no new case of the disease detected in the country in the past three years. Also seen are David Salisbury from Britain’s Dept. of Health, right, and Anthony Adams from Australian National University. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)
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Chairperson of South-East Asia Regional Certification Commission for Polio Eradication Supamit Chunsuttiwat, left, and WHO's South-east Asian region Regional Director Poonam Khetrapal, right, give polio free certification to Indian Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, second right, and Indian official P.K Umashankar, second left, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, March 27, 2014. The World Health Organization has formally declared India polio-free, with no new case of the disease detected in the country in the past three years. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)
